Category Archives: Discussion Questions

Class questions/my questions

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Yael Rosenstock

Questions for class discussion: 1. Have you experienced moments in which you “weren’t yourself?” What were the circumstances? Do you think it is possible to explain it as another, less embraced version of you (the way Harriet eventually does with … Continue reading →

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Discussion Questions April, 21

Posted on April 17, 2015 by V.Andrews

The readings and pod casts for this week all speak to a variety of methods of defining, understanding, and treating severe mental illness. Mostly mental illnesses whose chief symptoms are auditory hallucinations. This spans from the deeply neurological discussion of … Continue reading →

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Discussion Questions: There was this Goat

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Berni Moestafa

First of all, I could not help but compare the book with my own experience as a former journalist and how the mundane job of transcribing and translating could, in this book, become the central task out of which an … Continue reading →

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Discussion Questions for Social

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Amber Chiac

Discussion Questions for Social: 1) Lieberman believes we are “wired together” for an intensely social existence. He says: “evolution moves us toward interdependence” and this is a “design feature, not flaw” (9). If Lieberman is correct, capitalism is at odds … Continue reading →

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Lieberman discussion questions

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Jennifer MacDonald

For discussion: 1. As readers, how do we approach and digest the information we are consuming? What enables us to trust and/or distrust the writer and the material they are presenting?   a) On page 19, Lieberman asserts that the default network supports … Continue reading →

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On Viegener, the Self, and Oversharing

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Jason Tougaw

Hi everybody. I’m posting the interview questions from last night’s session below. Also, I encourage you to check out the Oversharing blog. In particular, look to see if any of Professor Hintz’s students are doing research projects that overlap with … Continue reading →

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Discussion questions: Casey and Hacking

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Liz Foley

1.  What characteristics or elements, in your opinion, does a work need to display in order to be categorized as a novel? Does The Man Who Walked Away — a fictionalized characterization of two real-life historical figures whose plot is, … Continue reading →

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Discussion Questions for Alva Noe

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Justin Wenhan Luo

According to Noe, consciousness is not constructed by our brains and thus happens inside our heads or skins, which is an ungrounded assumption that has been taken for granted by most scientists nowadays (including Damasio) addressing the problem of consciousness. … Continue reading →

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Questions regarding Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Jeffrey Vreeland

1. Having now read Damasio and Hustverdt…Do you have a clearer idea of the differences between emotions and feelings? 2. Damasio theory is biological explanation of consciousness. He basically say that this is not a linear process but in some … Continue reading →

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Discussion Questions for Feb. 10

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Julia Schaffer Gruberg

Here are a few questions that have leapt out at me while doing this week’s readings and that I formulated in response to them. Content How can Damasio’s proto self, core self and autobiographical self (as Eakin presents them) be … Continue reading →

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